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Want More Teaching Time? Shorten Transitions… Here’s How
Want More Teaching Time? Shorten Transitions… Here’s How

Instructional time is a precious commodity, so it’s worth thinking about ways to make transitions as efficient as possible. In this blog post from Every Child Can Write author Melanie Meehan, she explains that, when we teach explicit strategies for transitioning smoothly and efficiently, we unlock more time for instruction.

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Want to Inspire Voluminous Reading? Start with Curating Texts
Want to Inspire Voluminous Reading? Start with Curating Texts

Teachers can serve as curators of texts in much the same way as museum curators. Julie Wright, author of What Are You Grouping For?, explains how we can make deliberate moves to pique interest, evoke emotion, and urge action in readers. And we can invite our students to be curators, too.

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Reclaiming Balanced Literacy for Higher Learning
Reclaiming Balanced Literacy for Higher Learning

Douglas Fisher, co-author of This Is Balanced Literacy, explains how the term "balanced literacy" today is used to describe instructional arrangements. A simple Internet search for “balanced literacy” will result in a wide range of graphics that indicate that whole class and small group instruction must be in balance. But that’s not where the term originally comes from.

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Kidwatching 2.0: Top 3 Moves for Real-time Assessment to Meet Every Student’s Needs
Kidwatching 2.0: Top 3 Moves for Real-time Assessment to Meet Every Student’s Needs

Whether you’re a novice or an expert kidwatcher, there are 3 moves you can make to ramp up your observation skills—then take what you observe to make decisions based on who your kids are as full humans. Read more on these 3 moves in Julie Wright's blog on Corwin Connect, based on her book, What Are You Grouping For?.

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Speaking Out: Public Speaking with Conviction
Speaking Out: Public Speaking with Conviction

The number-one fear of mankind is public speaking, according to various studies. While we can’t guarantee that we can alleviate all of your students’ stage fright, we can provide you with this lesson from High-Impact Writing Clinics to make their forays into oral presentations a bit more successful with helpful hints to alleviate their fears.

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Webinar: Navigating the Toughest Leadership Issues in Education
Webinar: Navigating the Toughest Leadership Issues in Education

In this webinar, two award-winning principals and authors of Future Focused Leaders square off on some of the biggest problems school leaders are facing in education. They’ll share strategies to amplify learning and help you apply positive deviance to break through the barriers you may be facing.

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Podcast: Leading the Change from Within
Podcast: Leading the Change from Within

In this podcast, part of the In Teacher's Shoes series by VoiceEd Radio, discover how Evan Robb, author of The Ten-Minute Principal, is a true leader in changing education through positive change and disruption of traditional practices and see how he truly "walks the talk" to enact real change.

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Webinar: The End of Knowing
Webinar: The End of Knowing

Sugata Mitra, author of The School in the Cloud, discusses his 20 years of experiments with children's education observing the world as it comes to terms with an evolving Internet. From his “Hole in the Wall” experiment to “Self-Organized Learning Environments” (SOLEs) and finally the “School in the Cloud,” he shares thought-provoking experiences that show what happens when children meet the Internet.

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Webinar: Keys to Achieving Excellence in Local Assessment Systems
Webinar: Keys to Achieving Excellence in Local Assessment Systems

Rick Stiggins, co-author of Balanced Assessment Systems, has helped thousands of teachers, principals, and other educational leaders become assessment-literate and develop systems built on quality assessments. If you’re looking for straightforward steps and strategies for designing a plan that balances formative and summative assessments, this webinar is a must-see.

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Four Critical Standards-Based Grading Challenges and Their Solutions
Four Critical Standards-Based Grading Challenges and Their Solutions

Informed by the ideas of 41 educators all over the world who contributed to the fourth edition of How to Grade for Learning, author Ken O'Connor focuses on the four most critical challenges when implementing Standards-Based Grading and Learning in schools and districts and in the classroom. 

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Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Considering Student Achievement in Teacher Evaluations
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Considering Student Achievement in Teacher Evaluations

"I am deeply troubled that many state laws continue to require consideration of change in annual accountability test score as an indicator of student growth for teacher evaluation. This is a patently indefensible policy for a variety of reasons..." Read the full blog from Rick Stiggins, author of Defensible Teacher Evaluation.

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Adapting Assessments
Adapting Assessments

In this excerpt from Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment, the author explains two types of assessments and how they see each test question as a potential way of gauging not whether a student has learned a standard at an expected level of proficiency and to identify the next step of that skill’s development.

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